Gas bandits leave daycare high and dry

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MOORE, Okla --Thieves left Crossroads Kidz Club in Moore, high and dry.

The staff arrived Friday morning, to find 15 passenger vans empty.

Owner, Bryan Musick said, "I ran up to the Conoco and put gas in it and it just splattered all over my feet. It looked like the gas lines had been cut."

Not just one van, but the entire fleet of daycare vans at Kidz Club.

Auto mechanic, Solomon Lemley told us, "The vans are so close together people can roll underneath them. And without being seen, they just get a knife and slice, then stick a hose in there and start syphoning the fuel into a can or something."

High Tech Auto Services says fuel theft has become increasingly common, especially when gas prices hover around $3 a gallon.